Weathering
The 3 different types of weathering are...
What is physical, chemical, and biological?
Name the 4 types of Physical Weathering
Temperature, Abrasion, Root Wedging, Frost Wedging
How many type of chemical weathering are there?
What is 3?
Erosion caused by large flowing bodies, like rivers and streams.
What is Water Erosion?
A physical force that breaks rock into smaller and smaller pieces is called...
What is Sediment?
When plants grow in the cracks of a rock it can cause physical weathering ,, what is the specific type?
What is Root Wedging?
Name the 3 different types of chemical weathering.
Can break rocks into small pieces, but is moved to a new location downward.
What is Gravity Erosion?
Animals burrowing into a crack in a rock making it bigger over time is ...
What is Biological Weathering
What is it called when water gets into the cracks of a rock and it freezes, it expands?
What is Frost Wedging?
What is the specific type of chemical weathering when carbon dioxide is mixed with minerals and elements (example: huge caves and sinkholes)?
What is Carbonation?
What type of erosion is when wind removes soil and sediments?
What is wind erosion?
The minerals that make up the rocks are changed are called...
What is Chemical Weathering?
When a rock gets hot (expands a little) and get cold (contracts a little) what type of physical weathering is this?
What is Temperature?
What type of chemical weathering is when oxygen combines with another substance (example: Statue of Liberty)?
What is Oxidation?
Plucking and abrasion are two examples of what type of erosion?
What is Ice Erosion?
The process of breaking down or dissolving the Earth's rocks and soil, and other parts of the geosphere is...
What is weathering?
When rocks and sediment grind against each other and wear away is what type of physical weathering?
Abrasion
What type of chemical weathering is when water wears down a substance (example: gravestones)?
What is Hydration?
What means to put things somewhere else?
What is deposition?